Cichlid food

jaws7777

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What are you guys feeding your cichlids...are nls and hikari the best ?

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pops

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HBH here, NLS be the standerd. no mater what you feed supplement. fish do not live on pellets alone. they just exist.
 

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I love new life spectrum, and I think that it can be fed alone to most fish.

But since the texture of new life is often very hard and dense, fish do not like to take it.

I got around this and supplemented my fishes diet by making it into a gel food.

I grind the new life with nori, and spirulina.

I add that powder to salmon, scallops, silversides, shrimp, krill, mysis, spirulina brine, "reef plankton", bloodworms, garlic, pumpkin, spinach, tomato, sweet potato, vitamins and more.

Everyone Ive ever given this to has eaten it.
 

Castlk

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Hikari Cichlid Gold.
 

crxlsturbo

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Hikari and nls. It depends on the fish sometimes. Like my male and female jags don't like nls. They will both spit it out. But feed them hikari and they'll devour those pellets.

Right now I'm switching my peacock bass from hikari to nls. So far so good. But yeah, any of those foods people mentioned are the best.

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JRT8783

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My 10" male jag gets a variety of.....

NLS thera a
NLS large fish formula
Omega 1 super color cichlid pellets
Southern Delight large cichlid food
Omega 1 Veggie wafers
Hikari carnivore pellets
Frozen freshwater mysis shrimp
Frozen krill

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francisfernandes

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Hikari Bio gold Plus as staple and Massivore delite evry alternate day....as far as pellets r concerned, havent tried nls as yt !!
 

xraycer

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Wow, glad to see this thread is still surprisingly civil!

....with that said, for me its a mixture:

50% NLS cichlid
25% Omega one cichlid
25% YourFishStuff veggie formula

Occassional frozen/live food & nori
 
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